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in the history of the garden, there is little to record, as its 

 scientific and administrative work was sadly neglected, except 

 that in the year 1866 the garden became a dependency of the 

 University. In 1897 the Director of the Institute of Secondary 

 Education obtained a portion of the garden for his School, and 

 it is with this part of the original garden that the present account 

 is concerned. The garden has been restored to its proper 

 functions under the direction of Dr. Fernando Reynoso, and to 

 his enthusiasm and energy the present prosperous condition of 

 the Havana Garden of the Institute of Secondary Education 

 appears largely to be due. 



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British Guiana Plants. — 'Mr. L. S. Hohenherk, Forestry 



Officer of British Guiana, has published a paper under the title- 

 of " Botanical Identifications of British. Guiana Trees and 



Plants,"* which should be useful for the reason that in 

 numerous instances the vernacular as well as the botanical 

 names are given. Specimens of the plants, mostly arborescent, 

 which are enumerated in the list, were brought to Kew by 

 Mr. C. "Wilgress Anderson, I.S.O., the late Forestry Officer, and 

 as far as possible they were identified in the Herbarium. The 

 list is arranged in five columns in which are given numbers,, 

 vernacular names, localities, descriptive remarks and botanical 

 names. Unfortunately many errors have crept into at, especially 

 in the spelling of the botanical names, and some confusion must 

 have occurred with regard to Sagittaria lancifolia, which, we 

 are informed, is a nameless shrub, that it was collected on a 

 sand beach, and that it has latex. s. a. s. 



Forestry in the Uganda Protectorate, — Before the year 1917- 



18 the interests of Forestry, Botany, and other scientific subjects 

 in the Uganda Protectorate were included in one department, but 

 at the beginning of that financial year a separate Forestry 

 Department was created, with Mr. E,. Fyffe as Chief Forest 

 Officer, who now issues the first annual report (Annual Report on 

 the Forestry Department for the Tear ended 31st March, 1918). 

 The work of the year has been largely of a preparatory nature, 

 including surveys, the construction of roads, the erection of 

 houses, sheds, and a saw mill, and other work necessary to facili- 

 tate future operations. Time was, however, found to clear 170 

 acres of ground in the Busoga Railway Fuel Reserve, and to plant 

 it with 820,000 young trees; to start an arboretum and nursery; 

 to collect and distribute 697 lbs. of tree seeds; to advance work 

 connected with a forest herbarium and museum and to collect 

 500 lbs. of rubber, valued at £06 13s. 4d., in the Budongo 

 Forest. The rubber resources of this forest are to be developed, 

 but much of the work during the past year had of necessity to- 

 take the form of road construction and housing accommodation 



Journal of the Board of Agriculture of British Guiana, vol. xi f pp. 98 

 106, 178-185 (1918). 



